14-letter words containing c, r, e, n, s, h
- chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
- christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
- christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dennis ritchie — (person) Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises